• karabuta (12/12) Sep 29 2015 Everyday we argue about why other languages are getting more
• H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d (23/39) Sep 29 2015 [...]
• karabuta (2/19) Sep 29 2015 Really? I will try to see what I can do.

karabuta <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:

Everyday we argue about why other languages are getting more 
users than D due to certain design decisions they make. But IMO, 
all those languages suck :). There is sugar in D, no honey!.


The problem I see is very few people are really aware of D as a 
creation out experience and research. I hurts so bad that there 
is almost nothing to find in terms of tutorials and blog posts 
for D.


I think D really need such things. Of course I would if I was not 
still learning D.

How bad will a 10 mins screencast hurt? I really like the way the 
other guys utilize Google hangouts even though their language of 
choice suck, IMHO.

"H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d" <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> writes:

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 06:41:49PM +0000, karabuta via Digitalmars-d wrote:
 Everyday we argue about why other languages are getting more users
 than D due to certain design decisions they make. But IMO, all those
 languages suck :). There is sugar in D, no honey!.
 
 
 The problem I see is very few people are really aware of D as a
 creation out experience and research. I hurts so bad that there is
 almost nothing to find in terms of tutorials and blog posts for D.
 
 
 I think D really need such things. Of course I would if I was not
 still learning D.
 
 How bad will a 10 mins screencast hurt? I really like the way the
 other guys utilize Google hangouts even though their language of
 choice suck, IMHO.

[...]

The difference is that D is driven by volunteer work, whereas the other
"big" languages have commercial support behind them, that can pay people
to do things like blogs or articles, or other such marketing strategy.

Unfortunately, a volunteer-driven project means that if nobody steps up
to the plate to do X, then X will not happen, no matter how much people
clamor for it. Volunteers have this unfortunate characteristic, that
they will only work on what interests them, and telling them what to do
generally only succeeds in driving them away from doing what is
demanded.

I'd say that even if you are still only learning D, you can already
contribute screencasts and blog posts and whatever else you perceive
there's a lack of.  In fact, you may be uniquely poised to deliver the
most punch with your efforts, because as someone new to the language,
you share a perspective that many other newcomers will experience when
they first pick up the language, whereas the rest of us "old folks"
already know "too much" about D, and what we write would likely be full
of assumptions that newcomers don't understand yet, which makes it less
effective.


T

-- 
Once bitten, twice cry...

karabuta <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 at 19:00:32 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
 On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 06:41:49PM +0000, karabuta via 
 Digitalmars-d wrote:

 The problem I see is very few people are really aware of D as 
 a creation out experience and research. I hurts so bad that 
 there is almost nothing to find in terms of tutorials and blog 
 posts for D.
 


 I'd say that even if you are still only learning D, you can 
 already contribute screencasts and blog posts and whatever else 
 you perceive there's a lack of.  In fact, you may be uniquely 
 poised to deliver the most punch with your efforts, because as 
 someone new to the language, you share a perspective that many 
 other newcomers will experience when they first pick up the 
 language, whereas the rest of us "old folks" already know "too 
 much" about D, and what we write would likely be full of 
 assumptions that newcomers don't understand yet, which makes it 
 less effective.

Really? I will try to see what I can do.